hypercortisolemic
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hyper- + cortisolemic.
Adjective
[edit]hypercortisolemic (comparative more hypercortisolemic, superlative most hypercortisolemic)
- Relating to hypercortisolemia
- 2015 July 22, “Abnormal Social Reward Responses in Anorexia Nervosa: An fMRI Study”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Early studies suggested a rewarding effect of starvation itself through an hypercortisolemic and hyperdopaminergic state [23 ], and, in the same line, the animal model of self-starvation/activity-based anorexia (ABA) has implicated imbalances in the brain reward system in AN, driven merely by modifications in food consumption and starvation [24 ].